Zach Varney

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[Zach Varney @realZVarney]

@NASAAdmin @KatieMiller Good luck with the flyover tomorrow!

[Zach Varney @realZVarney]

I've been hesitant on open source models and something of a Claude hardo for the past 5 months. The pricing has never made sense under the premise that everyone was still "figuring it out," but the last month of Anthropics policy choices has made me reinstall OpenRouter and start to remove the dependency to Claude models.

My original thesis with AVHA was to have it rely primarily on open source models and route work accordingly, but 11 months ago it wasn't feasible due to cost and benchmarks. Time to retest that theory...

[BridgeMind @bridgemindai]

I just paid $321 for a coding session where Fable 5 refused to do the work.

Here is where the work actually went:

Fable 5: $78
Opus 4.8: $242

75% of the session got routed to Opus because the new classifiers kept flagging routine coding work as cybersecurity risk.

The model I chose did a quarter of the job.

The fallback did the rest.

Anthropic said a small fraction of tasks would fall back.

My receipts say otherwise.

[Zach Varney @realZVarney]

@BeardownCuz

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

"Fable 5 will be included for up to 50% of weekly usage limits through July 7, after which it will be available via usage credits" 🪦

[Zach Varney @realZVarney]

@claudeai "I want to push back on this...."

[NASA @NASA]

@NASAMoonBase Award details by the numbers:
@astrobotic — $297.9 million for two lunar lander deliveries
@FireflySpace — $144.2 million for one lunar lander delivery
@Int_Machines — $148.3 million for one lunar lander delivery

[Zach Varney @realZVarney]

@Jean_Maes_1994 @AnthropicAI Started using "I want to be straight with you" and "I want to push back" anytime I feel like not doing what was asked of me.

[Zach Varney @realZVarney]

@PalmerLuckey @benz145 @Qualcomm @MetaQuestVR @boztank

[Zach Varney @realZVarney]

@pronounced_kyle Watching the Falcon 9 launch as I type this!

[Zach Varney @realZVarney]

I look at the renders comparing the sizes of all these crafts next to each other, then you get one in the wild like this with some actual scale to it and it completely melts my brain

[Jerry Pike @JerryPikePhoto]

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has arrived at the Space Coast! Carried inside NASA's Pegasus barge, this new telescope is set to launch on Falcon Heavy later this year.

[Zach Varney @realZVarney]

@is_OwenLewis I've read that thread 10 times and I still can't believe it 😂

[Zach Varney @realZVarney]

@MiG82au @DJSnM

[Zach Varney @realZVarney]

If they pull this off, it will be a logistics master class. My goodness

[SpaceNews @SpaceNews_Inc]

Blue Origin begins rebuilding New Glenn pad https://t.co/rGIyiGKKi2

[Zach Varney @realZVarney]

@RJcliffordMMA

[Zach Varney @realZVarney]

https://t.co/ykB0PCiwkS

[Zach Varney @realZVarney]

@BDBSoCal @DJSnM Fair point 😂 though I should preface that this was pre-awful search results.

[Zach Varney @realZVarney]

@StarshipSMT42 @DJSnM It depends on the audience. Artists are certainly impacted, but a lot of processing, documentation, research and office administrative type jobs are being impacted heavily in my line of work. Data and source accuracy is a high point of tension when working with models.

[Zach Varney @realZVarney]

I try to post something clever about the mind numbing rate that space is going... Then I get distracted watching these videos for the 20th time. No shortage of discourse out there, but man... It's unbelievable to watch what's happening above us

[International Space Station @Space_Station]

#ICYMI: The @SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station at 12:25 p.m. EDT on Tuesday packed with science experiments and cargo for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California on Wednesday.

[Zach Varney @realZVarney]

@LUFC1992_v2 I know the freighthouse when I see it